hyped garbage

This is a must-see and one of the best documentaries - and films - of this year.

The first must-see film of the year.

A great movie, one of the best of this year. There was a bit of confusion at one point in the plot, but nothing serious.

They make it look like what they are doing is something new. People lived off the elements for thousands of years, and still do all over the world. And most don't have modern equipment, like tractors, barges, motorboats, atvs, etc. Also, these people seem to be always having to get these machines up and running because they leave the machines out in the elements getting rusty and overgrown with weeds. They act like they are so clever and ingenious with these machines but they lack one basic thing: They don't take proper care of said equipment. Obviously none of these people have ever been in the military because if they had been, they would understand this rule. HEY KILCHERS...TAKE PROPER CARE OF YOUR MACHINES AND EQUIPMENT AND THEY WILL LAST A LONG LONG TIME! DUH! These people are embarrassing. No one is forcing you to live like this. Not impressed!

This show is a load of staged nonsense, it shows nothing about real Alaska. The reality of Alaska is that nobody lives like this, much less these people. Source: I live five miles from these people, in Homer. Otto owns a machine shop, Atz is a wealthy musician, the show is just designed to make it look like they fight for survival when there's a paved road and a grocery store just a few miles away. These people are a laughing stock in my town, and nobody likes the way they misrepresent Alaska. Stop buying this garbage and don't think we're all like this, nobody is. It seriously bothers me to see how many people totally buy this. We hunt, we fish, we do rough it, but it's not a survival situation 24/7 like the kilchers would have you believe.

I actually watch this show because I am entertained by it and the family characters are amusing.But, let's face it, the show is contrived and staged.Every week, we are treated to the next "Gotta get this done before winter" emergency fulfilled with an old "insert recycled item here" Example: Using an old semi flatbed to make a cow feeding station. After using a 100K bulldozer to move the bed, we will use commercial lumber that mysteriously appears to make the paddocks. Along with acetylene torches and various other power tools. Where do they get the tanks of acetylene? I guess they take the family barge to town?! But wait, why didn't they just BUY a feeding station? After all, they are multi-millionaires?

How can you seriously think that dragging a three day old calf across a river is good... have been around cattle all of my life and never ever drag calf's across a creek or river. Was a fan and have been a little disturbed in the method of Hunting and Cattle Handling, but I know its for the show and the edge of your seats type shows...Stop doing dumb things to these and other animals on this show, as my wife says - shame on you guys for being cattlemen and abusing these animals for the sake of a show...she seems to make better sense then the producers of this show!You wanna learn how to handle cattle a good fix of Texas wrangling will set you folks right, but then it wouldn't make the show fun would it.